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Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

West Palm Beach or York?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’s own page.

Choose York for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on York’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach 80, York 14: West Palm Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. West Palm Beach 52, York 42: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. West Palm Beach 42, York 70: York leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. West Palm Beach and York are level on 36.
Nature & outdoors. West Palm Beach 58, York 62: York leads by 4 points.
Day trips. West Palm Beach 55, York 80: York leads by 25 points.
Good for families. West Palm Beach 66, York 60: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. West Palm Beach 38, York 72: York leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. West Palm Beach 64, York 46: West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. West Palm Beach 23, York 38: York leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. West Palm Beach 47, York 38: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. West Palm Beach 44, York 34: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: West Palm Beach and York.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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West Palm BeachYork

Where the figures come from

York has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureWest Palm BeachYork
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureWest Palm BeachYork
City population117,415208,400
People per km²786766
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.